These images of the farmland east of Ski, a town not too far southwest of Oslo, were taken just west of a tiny village called Kråkstad. I drove up a dirt road leading from the E18 motorway on a dramatically cloudy day last fall and fell in love with the views of undulating fields and trees and had to take a few pictures. I went back a few months later on a crisply cold, fairly clear winter day to the same site and captured many of the same vistas decked with white.

View of a typical Norwegian farm backed by fall colors

The hills gently roll under a blanket of snow

The field is so green that it comes through even on a cloudy, grey day

Blue and white sky over white and green landscape

A copse of trees is starting to turn with fall colors

The same copse of trees is now covered in frost and surrounded by white

Something very orangy-yellow marked this otherwise brown field, topped by grey clouds

A row of white-coated trees almost obscures a red house

The horizon backs a field blanketed with snow

The two trees in the carpet of green remind me somewhat of broccoli florets

Now winter white coats field and trees alike